Re: Two tables with same name in different user not allowed

Kumar, Lakshmi (Cognizant) wrote:
> Hi ,
> I have two users in my database x & y.
> I tried to create a table abc in y which is there in x with the same
> name.Ofcourse i logged in as user y and tried.
> Even then am not allowed to create throwing error that "object already
> exist".
> Can anybody xplain this comparing Oracle-schema with the user in postgres
> as am in the process of porting oracle schemas to postgres`.

We don't have schemas but hope to have them in 7.3. Right now, you can
create temp tables with duplicate names but they go away on session
exit.

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